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USGS scientist Mike Descant takes water quality measurements on the Atchafalaya River Basin near Melville, La.

USGS scientist Paul Frederick manually checks the water levels near a streamgage on the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, La.

Floodwaters rise in Baton Rouge, La.

USGS scientists take water quality measurements on the Atchafalaya River Basin near Melville, La.

A traveling USGS water quality lab.

The floodwaters rise on the Atchafalaya River Basin near Melville, La.

USGS scientists Paul Frederick and Mike Descant take streamflow measurements on the the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, La.

USGS scientists Mike Descant and Cindy Sibley take water quality measurements on the Atchafalaya River Basin near Melville, La.

USGS scientist Paul Frederick checks a streamgage on the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, La.

A USGS streamgage can be seen on the side of the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, La.

USGS scientists Mike Descant and Cindy Sibley take water quality measurements on the Atchafalaya River Basin near Melville, La.

USGS Louisiana Water Science Center (LA WSC) crew on a flooded road

Measuring discharge below the New Madrid Floodway breach

Flood of May 3, 2011, at USGS streamflow-gaging station 07069000, Black River at Pocahontas, Arkansas. Photograph by D.M. Wagner, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center.

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Flood of May 3, 2011, at USGS streamflow-gaging station 07069000, Black River at Pocahontas, Arkansas. Photograph by D.M. Wagner, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center.

USGS scientist, Paul Brenden makes a flood measurement on the Big Piney near Big Piney Missouri. 

Flood of April 25, 2011, at USGS streamflow-gaging station 07048600, White River near Fayetteville, Arkansas. Photograph by K.M. Hubbs, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center.

Flood of April 25, 2011, at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) streamflow-gaging station 07048490, Town Branch tributary at Highway 16 at Fayetteville, Arkansas. Photograph by D.M. Wagner, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center.

Flood of April 25, 2011, at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) streamflow-gaging station 07048490, Town Branch tributary at Highway 16 at Fayetteville, Arkansas. Photograph by D.M. Wagner, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center.

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Flood of April 25, 2011, at USGS streamflow-gaging station 07048600, White River near Fayetteville, Arkansas. Photograph by K.M. Hubbs, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center.

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Little Missouri River near Camp Area C at Albert Pike Recreation Area, Arkansas (photograph by Daniel M. Wagner, U.S. Geological Survey).